Paintcheck Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 (edited) Coming up on 200 daily comms and need to decide if I want a campaign relic. I am a PVE player and only a PVE player because of the stupid decision to make end game PVE armor suck in PVP due to the expertise ********. Right now I'm rakata/bh geared around 26ish% defense chance, 40% shield chance, 42% Absorption. I have an augmented matrix cube in one slot and a Rakata Relic of Imperiling Serenity (the +290 Defense Rating one) or a Shield Amplification Device (forgot the exact stats on it, it's one of the "For 6 seconds you gain absorption rating when shielding attacks" relics) that I've been switching off since I just got the Shield Device and was testing it. My question for all you jug tanks out there is for my new relic should I get a proc'ing one again or are the activation ones for defense better overall? It seems like the procing ones keep you fresher at the beginning of a fight but because of how they work they might let you down when you really need them (IE if you hit a rage timer or something and desperately need to stay alive) while the Defense increase (or I guess the ones that increase shield by 300+, I haven't tried those yet but I'd imagine it'd be sort of like defense) doesn't help much until you really need and then it saves your life. Statistically is one of those options better? Another option is to go with the Battlemaster relic of imperiling serenity and lose the big mitigation on use but gain the 103 defense rating at all times. I think I may even have one of those already from when I hit 50 and bought some BM gear with comms saved up during the leveling process. I've heard the War Hero relic with 113 Defense Rating on it is the best in slot for PVE as well as PVP (which is beyond stupid) but I am not grinding PVP for days getting facerolled because I don't have any expertise PVP gear so that's off the table. The downside of that relic that I see is the asymptotic nature of defense rating and how adding more to it increases your percentage less once you get past like 30ish% or so. I suppose with the BM relic you can then get closer to the 25% defense rating number without augments for defense and then throw those augments into Shield/Absorption but I think survivability in an Ops boss fight could take a hit without the big boost. Thoughts? Edited October 8, 2012 by Paintcheck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banivisa Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) BIS relic's for PvE are the War Hero relics...I run 2 +113 defense relics but there was a time where I ran 1 shield and 1 defense it really just depends on what your stats are. The BM relics would be the next step down in relics to use and pretty much everything else is worthless tbh since the BM relics are so easy to get. Stats you want is at least 30% defnse without retalitaion..I try to run 30% unbuffed completely meaning not stimmed either. ~50% shield with a 40%+ absorb then start stacking END and either power or Str depending on if you have aggro issues or not. We ran 2 Jugg tanks when we cleared 8man TFB HM for a server first and both of us were running these stats with 27-29k health. Edited October 17, 2012 by Banivisa clarification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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